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[QUOTE="CL82, post: 4770651, member: 44"]
[B]The Art of Love[/B] (1964)

This movie stars James Gardner, Dick Van Dyke, Elke Sommer and Angie Dickinson.  The premise is that Dick Van Dyke is a starving artist in Paris who becomes frustrated by his  inability to sell his paintings.   James Gardner is his roommate an equally unsuccessful writer who sponges off him. Van Dyck decides to give up and go back to America. The two go out and get drunk and lament that Van Dyke's paintings would have value if he was dead.  Garner jokingly writes a suicide note for VanDyke who then accidentally falls off a bridge onto a barge and is carried up river. By the time he gets back to Paris his paintings are selling wildly in the pair decides to continue to fake his death.  The plan is complicated by the fact that Van Dyke's fiancé  unexpectedly turns up in Paris and Gardener decides to pursue her.  Meanwhile ingénue Elke Sommer continually throws herself at Van Dyke who resist her intentions.

The movie is a typical 60s farce, complete with references to the Inspector Clouseau movies which were hot at the time.  It wasn't particularly well received in the theater, but is genuinely pretty funny. I enjoyed it.
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